Mapping Gems to Git Repositories

David Cole

17 Jun, 2010 02:36 PM

It would be nice to be able to map a gem hosted here with its
Github repository, if there is one.

What I'm trying to do is, when I install a new gem, to have a
script I can run that iterates over my installed gems and clones
their repos for me to inspect (for the sake of curiosity,
education, and to see what I might be interested in contributing
to).

We're working on additions to the gemspec that allow arbitrary
metadata like this. It's hard, and everyone's really busy, so it's
taking way too long. Once we do that, though, it'll be very easy to
expose information like this.